NARRATIVE OF MR. WM. CARRON. 



We left Sydney on the 29th of April^ 1848, in 

 the barque " Tarn O'Shanter" (Captam Merionberg-), 

 in company with H.M.S. ^^ Rattlesnake." 



Our party consisted of the following* persons : 

 Mr. E. B. Kennedy, (leader), Mr. W. Carron, 

 (botanist), Mr. T. Wall, (naturalist), Mr. C. Niblet, 

 (storekeeper), James Luff, Edward Taylor, and 

 William Costig'an, (carters), Edward Carpenter, 

 (shepherd), William Goddard, Thomas Mitchell, 

 John Doug'las, Dennis Dunn, (labourers), and 

 Jackey-Jackey, an aboriginal native of the Pa- 

 trick's Plains tribe, of the Hunter River district. 



Our supplies and equipment for the journey had 

 been most fully considered, and were estimated by 

 Mr. Kennedy as amply sufficient for a journey so 

 short as what we then anticipated. Our live stock 

 consisted of twentj^-eigiit horses, one hundred sheep, 

 three kang-aroo dog's, and one sheep dog\ Our dry 

 provisions comprised one ton of flour, ninety lbs. of 

 tea, and six hundred lbs. of sug*ar. Besides these 

 necessary supplies for subsistence on the road, we 

 took with us twenty-four pack-saddles, one heavy 

 square cart, two spring- carts, with harness for nine 

 horses, four tents, a canvas sheepfold, twentv-two 



